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Shevardnadze, Eduard Amvrosievich

1928- 2014
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Soviet Union. Communist Party. Central Committee (CPSU CC). Politburo

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Mikhail Gorbachev, 1986
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Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931- 2022
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Kryuchkov, Vladimir Alexandrovich

1924- 2007
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Yazov, Dmitri Timofeevich

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Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959
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Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

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Zaikov, L. N. (Lev Nikolaevich)

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South Asia

Afghanistan

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North America

United States

Afghan resistance fighters return to a village destroyed by Soviet forces
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

President Ronald Reagan, Vice-President Bush, and oviet General Secretary Gorbachev
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Bulgaria

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East Asia

China

George H.W. Bush and Lech Walesa
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CIA Reports on the Collapse of Communism in Europe

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June 27, 1990

National Intelligence Daily for Wednesday, 27 June 1990

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for 27 June 1990 describes the latest developments in the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, the European Community, Zambia, Iran and China.

October 22, 1986

Meeting Minutes of the Politburo of the CC CPSU, Regarding the Aftermath of the Reykjavik US-Soviet summit

The Politburo discusses what to do after the failure of the Reykjavik summit over Reagan's insistence on preserving the right to continue the SDI or "Star Wars" project, as well as the subsequent expulsion of Soviet diplomats from the US. In the angry, bitter meeting Gorbachev decides on the removal of 250 Soviets working in service positions at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

July 22, 1989

CPSU CC Memo with Excerpt from Protocol #163/44, 22 July 1989

The protocol deals with the further arming of Afghanistan and the training of Afghan servicemen in the USSR.

March 12, 1989

CPSU CC Memo with excerpt from Protocol #149/23 and an attached report, 12 March 1989

This memo concerns further measures for urgent military aid to Afghanistan.

November 17, 1989

CPSU CC Memo, excerpt from Protocol #172/1, 17 November 1989

Concerns further Soviet relations with Ethiopia.

December 27, 1988

Minutes of the Meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU CC), (Excerpts)

Minutes of the Meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU CC), (Excerpts) regarding the change of presidency from Reagan to Bush, defense issues and international opinion of the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union